supporting local action by local people
Stage 1: August 1st – August 15th
Stage 2: September 5th – September 19th
Round 2 is now open. Projects can be up to 12 months in length. Priority areas:
~ Employability development programmes
~ The promotion of human rights through combatting discrimination
~ Poverty prevention
Funding and support for groups involved in counter-extremism projects in their communities.
The Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme has a budget of €439 million to promote and protect specific individual rights and freedoms that derive from EU law. The programme will promote gender equality, rights deriving from the citizenship of the Union, children’s rights and Roma inclusion; and it will fund projects aimed at combating all forms of discrimination and racism and fighting violence against women, young people and children.
Rosa’s Voices from the Front Line Grants Programme support women’s organisations to promote their fight for gender equality in the UK through charitable advocacy work.
The Improving life for Londoners fund helps organisations based and working in London to deliver projects which will address inequality and lift people out of poverty in the capital.
You may know that in December the Council’s Cabinet approved a £5.1m annual investment programme beginning in 2017. Details of the approved proposals are available here (item 10).
The first fund to launch under this new programme will be the Strategic Partners Fund, which contains funds for both Neighbourhood Strategic Partners and Equalities Strategic Partners……
Edge Fund is a grant-making body with a difference. We support efforts to achieve social, economic and environmental justice and to end imbalances in wealth and power – and give those we aim to help a say in where the money goes.
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust has launched its new grant programmes. Its key priorities are:
Peace and Security
Power and Accountability
Rights and Justice
Sustainable Future
Northern Ireland
